Jeremy's Claus von Bulow Iron.

Ron Silver played Dershowitz? Note to self: cancel all plans for day. See that movie RIGHT THE FUCK NOW. That note also goes for everyone else.

It's going to be interesting, for sure. I feel like Cochran-in-quiet-moments is a much harder role than Cochran-chewing-scenery. On the other hand, I believe Vance can sell that it is Cochran, and not he, who is overacting the living fuck out of the courtroom scenes.

TV auteurism is fascinating to me. I don't know if it's something some people genuinely believe in, or if, like me, people are just lazy. I can't tell you how many times I've watched an episode of "Breaking Bad" written by Moira Walley-Beckett and directed by Rian Johnson and acted by Bryan Cranston et al and walked…

Yeah, that's the show's most interesting decision for me. My read of Robert Kardashian has always been that he was a guy whose dream was for his kids to grow into what they are now—-a guy who just loved fame for the sake of fame. The first couple of episodes were fairly ambiguous—-they showed him as being intensely…

Agreed. I've seen people argue that "all of this stuff really happened", and, I mean, that's probably true - Robert Kardashian probably did have a meal with his kids at some point - but everybody on the show "really" had families, and they aren't appearing every episode. It's still a writing/editorial decision what to…

Mystery solved! Every woman I've dated this year must be an advertiser.

So, wait, are there any cons?

Yeah, yours seems to be the majority view. And I'm not in any way saying it's wrong, just that I can't personally see it. But either way, I think the show's doing a great job of providing transformation-of-Jimmy stories for those who want them and providing prequel-Saul stories for those who want them. Ironically,…

"We need a show that's like what The Talking Dead is for The Walking Dead, except about Better Call Saul! I know: The Saul Dead!"

I've seen Redditors argue that he actually did that to protect himself from Mike, who was bound to rat on him. Just in case you needed any more evidence that Reddit is the worst.

I'll definitely make more of an effort to see a Jimmy in there. As it is, it's a very interesting debate about what constitutes an identity.

PLAYUH is really well-designed to evoke memories of and comparisons to Walt, isn't he? I feel like for the fans in the middle who see Walt as a complex and flawed character, this guy is meant to make you think, "Oh, so THIS is why Mike was so randomly contemptuous of the idea of Walt being an amateur, even before he…

"Walter Light"? I love you.

It's funny—-I don't feel that way about Jimmy/Saul, but I totally do hope for a happy ending for Mike and then keep having to remind myself, "No, actually, he ends up murdered. At the hands of Walter fucking White." And then I get sad. I guess the difference is that we know Jimmy/Saul/Gene is still alive—-some kind of…

They think of Gene as an identity? *That's* interesting. I will have to catch up with Talking Saul - I missed it tonight.

I've seen it argued that blowing up KEN WINS's car is the single worst thing Walter White ever does, because everything else he does at least nominally has an element of self-preservation or self-advancement—-fucking with KEN WINS's car is just a random act of psychopathy, unjustified by anything. I don't know if I…

This was the season finale? Shortest season ever.

I always love Donna's writing, and credit her for getting me into "Breaking Bad" in the first place, but she processes this show much differently from how I do. She very much sees "Jimmy" as a character distinct from "Saul", whereas I see Bob Odenkirk as "Saul", always. I feel like his "Gene" face and his "Jimmy" face…

Vietnam was terrible, but I'm not convinced JFK wouldn't have made the same mistakes.